Sentences with phrase «party leadership election there»

[4] Among the candidates for the Conservative Party leadership election there were disagreements about when this should be: Theresa May said that the UK needed a clear negotiating position before triggering Article 50, and that she would not do so in 2016, while Andrea Leadsom said that she would trigger it as soon as possible.

Not exact matches

I'll leave it to others to debate his definitions of liberalism and other political philosophies, and there's a whole other debate to be had about whether his leadership of the Liberal Democrat party was doomed by his Christian faith, as he claims, or his failure to return a higher number of MPs at this year's General Election.

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But discontent remains, with dozens of local parties holding meetings to vote on whether there should be a leadership election.

This category creates the possibility of a primary election for the party leadership, but there is no indication of how appealing that would be to non-party members.

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In a challenge to his internal critics, a spokesman for Mr Corbyn said today: «Our view is that the leader of the Labour party is on the ballot paper if there's a leadership election.»

In such circumstances there may not even have been an internal party leadership election, as the new leader may be chosen by acclaim, having no electoral rival (as in the case of both Brown and May).

However, Corbyn's aides have insisted he will automatically be on the ballot paper if there is another leadership election, virtually guaranteeing him victory given his continued popularity with the party rank - and - file.

BBC journalist Nick Robinson brought up the idea that there could be tensions between David Cameron and David Davis over the leadership election and the future of the party and who couldn't forgive David Davis for feeling emotion over losing his leadership bid?

Speaking following the resignation of Labour leader Ed Miliband the politician ruled out taking on the leadership role himself but said there was a need for the party to think about how they appeal to the public in the wake of Thursday's election night defeat.

«The rules by which the Labour Party is governed are unambiguous: the leader does not require any signatures to be nominated in a leadership election where there is a potential challenger to the leadership,» the letter states.

He warned: «Let us remember one thing if there is a debate, if there is a leadership contest, if there is a change of leader is the British public really going to wear the Labour party carrying on in office, is it not going to ask for an immediate general election.

«First, if anyone is undemocratic enough to think that there can be a new leadership election with the existing leader kept off the ballot, then they are setting the Labour party on course for a split.

Because if June's election taught us one thing, it's that if we stand behind Jeremy's principled leadership, if we stand united as a Party, and if we stand on a radical manifesto, there is absolutely no seat that we can't win.

Even if the vote is Remain both north and south of the Scotland - England border, there will be a Tory leadership election relatively soon and the party will have substantial divisions to heal following all the «blue on blue» hostility of the EU referendum.

There will also be a system or registered supporters, people who are not full members of the Labour Party, who can also then take part in those leadership elections.

Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman, also rejected suggestions there were any «wobbles» over Ed Miliband's leadership, as party officials insisted the key lesson from Thursday's byelections was that David Cameron no longer has a strategy to win a majority at the next election.

However, Mr Corbyn's aides have insisted he will automatically be on the ballot paper if there is another leadership election, virtually guaranteeing him victory given his continued popularity with the party rank - and - file.

As Alec Douglas - Home, at Heath's request, considered the procedures for a leadership election, there was some speculation that du Cann would himself stand as a representative of the party's right - wing against Heath.

Corbyn's position as party leader has been bolstered by Labour's election performance and rise in the polls, meaning there is no suggestion there will be another leadership contest for some time unless he decides to stand aside.

Equally, Labour party members who opposed Corbyn in the leadership election continue to oppose him, there is little sign of them rallying round their new leader.

Surveys of party members are quite rare, most of the time they only happen in the middle of a leadership election when there is no incumbent leader whose ratings we can compare.

Nearly 5,500 people left the party in 2007 alone, even though there was a deputy leadership election held in that year.

There is even less prospect of party conference (where half the votes lie with the trade unions) agreeing any OMOV process which would exclude trade unionists from future leadership elections even if it is supported by 56 % of Labour List readers.

Assuming there will be a leadership election and assuming Corbyn wins (two large assumptions I appreciate because it is not in the interest of the plotters to run in an election they are likely to lose and anything might happen in the campaign if and when it comes) then the opportunity to renew the party is now there.

Cameron and the Tory leadership fear yet more defections before the election in seven months, although the party whip, Greg Hands, says he is confident there will not be any more.

Cameron is credited with coining the phrase «There is such a thing as society, it's just not the same thing as the state» (seen as a rejoinder to Margaret Thatcher's famous comment that there is «no such thing» as society), [27] which has been said several times by David Cameron, including in his victory speech following his victory in the Conservative party leadership election in There is such a thing as society, it's just not the same thing as the state» (seen as a rejoinder to Margaret Thatcher's famous comment that there is «no such thing» as society), [27] which has been said several times by David Cameron, including in his victory speech following his victory in the Conservative party leadership election in there is «no such thing» as society), [27] which has been said several times by David Cameron, including in his victory speech following his victory in the Conservative party leadership election in 2005.

Speaking after the leadership election, which he won with 62.6 per cent of the votes cast by party members, Mr Nuttall questioned whether there was «any place» for women who wore burqas in the UK.

Sure, there have been outriders floating radical ideas about policy and party reform, yet despite the fears among MPs that there would be a period of blood - letting following Owen Smith's emphatic defeat in the second leadership election last summer, there has been no abuse of the party's internal processes by Corbyn, evidenced by the failure of his supporters to secure berths in the pre-election carve - up of safe seats.

Looking in radiant health, an upbeat Sir Menzies shrugged off suggestions that there were still murmurings about his leadership, and insisted he would lead his party into the next general election.